Voyboy Gives Great Mental Health Speech After Winning $100k For Charity

Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok is the most famous League of Legends player in the world, having recently been inducted into the Esports Hall of Fame along with signing a new contract at SKT. While the Koreans may be ahead of the western world when it comes to the game, it doesn’t mean they’re unbeatable, as shown by Joedat "Voyboy" Esfahani and Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng who beat Faker and his teammate, Kang “Cpt Jack” Hyung-woo, in the 2v2 charity tournament at All-Stars.

When collecting the $100,000 cheque for charity, Voyboy was given the opportunity to talk about what this means and how important it is to him. “I know a lot of gamers, myself personally, family, friends,” he began while stood alongside Doublelift on stage. “Mental health is something that’s often overlooked and overshadowed, sometimes people are scared talking about how they feel or what’s going through their heads. It’s okay to be down, be going through a rough time, reach out for help and  have people supporting you and having your back. Just like Doublelift had my back in the 2v2s! So hopefully this $100k is going to go to raising a lot of awareness, mental health, resources, therapy and just helping a lot of people out and changing some lives. So that’s the goal and I’m happy we were able to raise it for such an important cause.”

Interestingly in this game, both duos agreed beforehand to play Thresh and Alistair. Of course, that meant the game played out incredibly slowly but it caused some fascinating plays since both champions are excellent at crowd control. Neither are champions the four players are experienced with but Voyboy and Doublelift were able to play the unfamiliar ground better, winning the $100k for charity and closing the gap between Korea and the western world.

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